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April 06, 2009

"BD: Well, a number of things. He’s got an interesting background. He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James and Quantrill. Bushwhackers, Guerillas. Wizard of Oz Kansas. I think Barack has Jefferson Davis back there in his ancestry someplace. And then his father. An African intellectual. Bantu, Masai, Griot type heritage - cattle raiders, lion killers. I mean it’s just so incongruous that these two people would meet and fall in love. You kind of get past that though. And then you’re into his story. Like an odyssey except in reverse." He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real.via talkingpointsmemo.com

""News organizations have been reluctant to test that idea in court, and it is still not clear whether The A.P. is willing to do so....One goal of The A.P. and its members, she said, is to make sure that the top search engine results for news are “the original source or the most authoritative source,” not a site that copied or paraphrased the work of news organization."" Gatehouse v NYT, now this, I think it would be good for people to finally test the idea of fair use to to clarify things. What are the limits? Is taking an RSS feed, excerpting it and then filtering it by place or frequency fair use or creating a new thing from someone else's copyright? Set the floor so people can react and build or be sued.

the founder of delicious on url shorteners and their costs to us. Great article and I enjoyed this little bit too "(Let's leave aside the fact that any phone that can run a web browser and thus follow links can also run a proper client, and doesn't have to hew to the SMS character limit.)" . via Kottke.org

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"BD: Well, a number of things. He’s got an interesting background. He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James and Quantrill. Bushwhackers, Guerillas. Wizard of Oz Kansas. I think Barack has Jefferson Davis back there in his ancestry someplace. And then his father. An African intellectual. Bantu, Masai, Griot type heritage - cattle raiders, lion killers. I mean it’s just so incongruous that these two people would meet and fall in love. You kind of get past that though. And then you’re into his story. Like an odyssey except in reverse." He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real.via talkingpointsmemo.com

""News organizations have been reluctant to test that idea in court, and it is still not clear whether The A.P. is willing to do so....One goal of The A.P. and its members, she said, is to make sure that the top search engine results for news are “the original source or the most authoritative source,” not a site that copied or paraphrased the work of news organization."" Gatehouse v NYT, now this, I think it would be good for people to finally test the idea of fair use to to clarify things. What are the limits? Is taking an RSS feed, excerpting it and then filtering it by place or frequency fair use or creating a new thing from someone else's copyright? Set the floor so people can react and build or be sued.

the founder of delicious on url shorteners and their costs to us. Great article and I enjoyed this little bit too "(Let's leave aside the fact that any phone that can run a web browser and thus follow links can also run a proper client, and doesn't have to hew to the SMS character limit.)" . via Kottke.org